Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-10-20
EDITORIAL NOTES.

France De Laune of Sharsted Court, County
Kent, has attracted to himself the admiring
eyes of the British nation by successfully
raising and harvesting a crop of tobacco. It
is said to be the first ever raised in England.
The government has graciously given consent
that he shall go on with his experiment, but
insists that he must pay duty on his crop the
same as though the tobacco were imported.
In the public schools of Philadelphia this
week is Forestry week and Friday is set
apart as an autumn Arbor day for the pupils.
The attention of the children will be specially
called to the practical as we'll as the4enti-
lection of the woods, the necessity of pre-
serving supply of lumber, the effects of
forests upon the streams, the climate, the
fertility of the coil, etc. Good idea.
The California cigarmakers are much dis
couraged by the Chinese. One OF them
says that there are 4,500 Chinese cigar
makers to 500 white men engaged in the in
dustry. Some of the largest shops are con-
trolled by the Chinese or by Chinese capital.
Denis Kearney's trsachery to labor interests,
he says, has set the workingmen against or
ganized labor, and the Chinese are getting
the upper hand more and more. Many cigar
factories are run by the Chinese in dark eel
lars, and partitioned off from the work rooms
are miserable hunks where sixty men can
sleep.
Some of the Democrats in Washington
have thought Civil Service Commissioner
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the civil service law, and his admonitions
have restrained their activity in certain
directions They complain of his interference
with their collecting of money and their use
of it for party purposes. Lately some of the
representatives of these associations asked
Mr.. Oberly how they could get money from
civil officers, especially from the President,
without violating the law accordinsbto his
interpretation of it, since collections in any
public building are forbidden. As for the
President, Mr.. Oberly said: 'tJust direct your
letter to Oak View saying that you did not
want to put yourself in the position of violat-
ing the law and will wager that the Presi-
dent will laugh and send you a check" OF
such is true reform.
The special schedule of freight rates re-
Gently arranged by the Mexican Central rail-
road company on Mexican fruits designed to
be exported to the United States enables the
fruit growers of the northern States of Mex
leo to place their oranges at Omahs, Denver,
st. Louis, st. Paul, Chicago and other cities
at rates which give them a fair chance to
compete with their rivals of California. The
growers in Mexico and those interested in
the development of that country have for q
long time watched with an envious eye the
immensely profitable trade secured by Cali
fornia. They claim that what has been done
there, and especially on the dry and sandy
plains of the southern part of that State. can
be easily paralleled in Mexico; and now that
additional inducements to extend their busi-
ness have been offered them in the form of
reduced freight rates there Is no doubt that
they will make a determined attempt to Sc
cure portion at least of this business.
The rapid growth OF Berlin during the last
twenty years is shown by some figures which
have just been made public. At the close of
the sixteenth century Berlin contained only
IL, 900 inhabitants, and in consequence of the
thirty years. war that number fell towards
the middle of the next century to 1900. At
the death of the Great Eleotor Q680 Berlin
had 10000 inhabitants; at the dscease of
Frederick l., the first King of Prussia Q713)
81 200; at the death of Frederick William 1.
| Q74O) 90, 900. The seven years. war reduced
the population of Berlin considerably but
when Frederick the Great died the Prussian
capital numbered 145, 200 inhabitants. At
the end of the eighteenth century the number
| had risen to ITO, 900, and at the death OF
Frederick William III. in 1910 to 330, 200.
When William, the present emperor, follow
ed his brother Frederick William ", on the
throne in 1861 Berlin had SOC, 900 inhabitants.
| By 1867 the population had increased to
700, 900, and ten years later to 1,OO0,Ooo.
| The last census, on December 1, 1885, show
cd the population to have risen to 1885, 600
| eoals, and this number had been swelsa to